The Three State Solution

There is a desperate need for a third way in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The two-state solution as currently formulated is dead because the extremes on both sides of the conflict reject it and have enough strength to foil any attempt to bring it about. Plus, Israel has legitimate reason to believe that any independent Palestinian state would ultimately be a violently hostile neighbor to Israel.

At the same time, a one state solution is also unworkable because it would either lead to a majority Palestinian democracy that would undermine the Jewish…